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oapen-20.500.12657-475712023-07-06T13:43:30Z Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950 Sablin, Ivan Moniz Bandeira, Egas parliaments Eurasia bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching the divide between different area studies, the book provides nine case studies covering the area between the eastern edge of Asia and Eastern Europe, including the former Russian, Ottoman, Qing, and Japanese Empires as well as their successor states. In particular, it explores the appeals to concepts of parliamentarism, deliberative decision-making, and constitutionalism; historical practices related to parliamentarism; and political mythologies across Eurasia. It focuses on the historical and “reestablished” institutions of decision-making, which consciously hark back to indigenous traditions and adapt them to the changing circumstances in imperial and postimperial contexts. Thereby, the book explains how representative institutions were needed for the establishment of modernized empires or postimperial states but at the same time offered a connection to the past. 2021-03-31T10:23:18Z 2021-03-31T10:23:18Z 2021 book 9780367691271 9780367745868 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47571 eng Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780367691271_text.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003158608 10.4324/9781003158608 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Universität Heidelberg 9780367691271 9780367745868 Routledge 160 332 open access
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Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions
and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective
process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution
of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching
the divide between different area studies, the book provides nine case studies covering
the area between the eastern edge of Asia and Eastern Europe, including the
former Russian, Ottoman, Qing, and Japanese Empires as well as their successor
states. In particular, it explores the appeals to concepts of parliamentarism,
deliberative decision-making, and constitutionalism; historical practices related
to parliamentarism; and political mythologies across Eurasia. It focuses on the
historical and “reestablished” institutions of decision-making, which consciously
hark back to indigenous traditions and adapt them to the changing circumstances
in imperial and postimperial contexts. Thereby, the book explains how representative
institutions were needed for the establishment of modernized empires or
postimperial states but at the same time offered a connection to the past.
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